Wiley Hilburn Column: In defense of the widely-hated, larger-than-life crow

10:47 PM,
Feb. 27, 2014

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Wiley Hilburn

Editor's Note: In the coming weeks, we will share some of our favorite columns written by the late Wiley Hilburn, longtime News-Star columnist and professor emeritus at Louisiana Tech University. Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen large flocks of birds on open lots in Monroe, pecking their way through the straw-colored grass. The birds brought this column to mind.Originally published March 12, 2000

The first bird to strut and fret itself upon the landscape of the new century, at least in northern Louisiana and specifically in Lincoln Parish, is the ubiquitous and widely hated crow.